Yaskawa Electric Corporation

The nihongo|Yaskawa Electric Corporation|株式会社安川電機|Kabushiki-gaisha Yasukawa Denki (tyo|6506) is a Japanese manufacturer of servos, machine controllers, AC drives, switches and robots.Their Motoman robots are heavy duty industrial robots used for example in car manufacturing.The company was founded in 1915, and its head office is located in Kitakyushu, Fukuoka Prefecture.Yaskawa applied for a trademark on the term "Mechatronics" in 1969, it was approved in 1972. [http://www.yaskawa.co.jp/en/company/rekisi.htm]

Subsidiaries

* Americas: Yaskawa Electric America and Motoman Inc.
* Europe, Africa, Middle-East: Yaskawa Electric Europe GmbH and Motoman Robotics Europe AB

ee also

*Kyushu Institute of Technology

External links

* [http://www.yaskawa.co.jp/en/ Yaskawa Electric Corporation]
* [http://www.yaskawa.com/ Yaskawa Electric America, Inc.]
* [http://www.motoman.com/ Motoman Inc.]
* [http://www.motoman.com/americas/canada/en Yaskawa Motoman Canada]
* [http://www.motoman.com/americas/mexico/es Yaskawa Motoman Mexico]
* [http://www.motoman.com/americas/brasil/po Yaskawa Motoman Brasil]
* [http://www.motoman.com/applications/asg/asgappdetail.php Motoman Robot Videos]
* [http://www.rstech.com/projects.html Videos of Yaskawa R-SYS Multiple Motoman Robot Systems]
* [http://www.robots.com/movies.php?sb=mm More Videos of Motoman Robots]
* [http://www.yaskawa.com.br Yaskawa Brazil]
* [http://www.yaskawa.co.jp/en/intro/index.html Early Company History]
* [http://www.yaskawa.com/site/Training.nsf/traininghome/traininghome.html Yaskawa Electric America Technical Training Services]